Ryan Gray is one of the hardest working men in paintball. As owner of Avid Extreme Sports he’s been a coach, manager, pro team owner, retailer, distributor,—you name it—and he’ll still pick up a marker and shoot you, too. If it involves paintball, Ryan has done it,...

Woodsball does not get the respect it deserves. Despite the fact paintball was born in the woods and is still mostly played in the woods, woodsball plays second string to airball in the media. Some old school players have told me it all went downhill after the 1996...

I remember exactly where I was when Lehman Brothers went up in smoke. I was eating my complimentary continental breakfast at a Super 8 motel in Bowman, North Dakota. The lobby, like the rest of the motel, smelled like mildew and hunting dogs. It was June, 2008, and a...

Paintball scenario or rock concert? That’s what kept running through my mind as I browsed the vendor area at Living Legends 7. The bright, neon colors of the Virtue booth, dance music booming from the HK Army tent, paintballers laughing, shouting, clapping old friends...

Every year, on the second weekend of April, the largest scenario in Texas goes down at TXR Paintball in Houston—Viper’s Annual Texas Revolution, or T-Rev, for the initiated. This year, starting early Friday morning, colorful players of all ages poured through the...